diff --git a/.github/workflows/continuous-integration.yaml b/.github/workflows/continuous-integration.yaml
index a2137aa09a..e859baace9 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/continuous-integration.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/continuous-integration.yaml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: 'Setup PHP'
         uses: 'shivammathur/setup-php@v2'
         with:
-          php-version: '7.4'
+          php-version: '8.0'
           coverage: 'none'
           extensions: 'json, mbstring, tokenizer'
           tools: 'composer-normalize:2.28.0, php-cs-fixer:3.9.5'
@@ -31,9 +31,6 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         php:
-          - '7.2'
-          - '7.3'
-          - '7.4'
           - '8.0'
           - '8.1'
         dependencies:
@@ -43,7 +40,7 @@ jobs:
         include:
           # Test with the lowest set of dependencies
           - dependencies: 'lowest'
-            php: '7.2'
+            php: '8.0'
             elasticsearch: '7.15.2'
       fail-fast: false
     steps:
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0dd75ebd06..d6760d1ca2 100755
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased](https://github.com/ruflin/Elastica/compare/7.3.0...master)
 ### Backward Compatibility Breaks
+* Dropped support for PHP <8.0 [#2131](https://github.com/ruflin/Elastica/pull/2131)
 ### Added
 ### Changed
 ### Deprecated
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index b6f59cff15..009423bc15 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -15,20 +15,19 @@
     ],
     "homepage": "http://elastica.io/",
     "require": {
-        "php": "^7.2 || ^8.0",
+        "php": "~8.0.0 || ~8.1.0",
         "ext-json": "*",
         "elasticsearch/elasticsearch": "^7.10",
         "nyholm/dsn": "^2.0.0",
         "psr/log": "^1.0 || ^2.0 || ^3.0",
-        "symfony/deprecation-contracts": "^2.2 || ^3.0",
-        "symfony/polyfill-php73": "^1.19"
+        "symfony/deprecation-contracts": "^3.0"
     },
     "require-dev": {
         "aws/aws-sdk-php": "^3.155",
-        "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "^6.3 || ^7.2",
+        "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "^7.2",
         "phpstan/phpstan": "^1.5",
         "phpstan/phpstan-phpunit": "^1.1",
-        "phpunit/phpunit": "^8.5.8 || ^9.4",
+        "phpunit/phpunit": "^9.5",
         "symfony/phpunit-bridge": "^6.0"
     },
     "suggest": {
diff --git a/docker/php/Dockerfile b/docker/php/Dockerfile
index d038053d76..3509ed09e1 100644
--- a/docker/php/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/php/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM php:7.2-fpm-alpine
+FROM php:8.0-fpm-alpine
 
 COPY --from=composer /usr/bin/composer /usr/bin/composer
 
diff --git a/src/Query/Match.php b/src/Query/Match.php
deleted file mode 100644
index 5e76eabc99..0000000000
--- a/src/Query/Match.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-
-namespace Elastica\Query;
-
-\trigger_deprecation('ruflin/elastica', '7.1.0', 'The "%s" class is deprecated, use "%s" instead. "match" is a reserved keyword starting from PHP 8.0. It will be removed in 8.0.', Match::class, MatchQuery::class);
-
-/**
- * Match query.
- *
- * This class is for backward compatibility reason. For PHP 8 and above use MatchQuery as Match is reserved.
- *
- * @author Nicolas Ruflin <spam@ruflin.com>
- *
- * @deprecated since version 7.1.0, use the MatchQuery class instead.
- */
-class Match extends MatchQuery
-{
-}